Tag: Dice

Idiocracy, Inc’s Dice Brawl: Captain’s League is coming next week to iOS. This colorful free to play game is a swashbuckling adventure with some throwback art that is aiming to distinguish itself from some hefty competition. Dice Brawl is a 1v1 pvp game where you face off against a similarly experienced opponent in a pirate duel. You will construct and destroy buildings, cross swords with boss mobs as well as your opponent, and use a deck of cards to sway the fight in your favor. As you progress in your career, you will unlock new cards and gain resources to upgrade your current cards. If you are familiar with Clash Royale [Free], you basically already know how the card and deck system works. If you are not familiar with Clash Royale, welcome to 2018 and this is a mobile video game website, TouchArcade.

Whether you want to talk about Clash Royale’s mass appeal, earnings, or involvement in eSports, there is always something going on with this mobile juggernaut. When it comes to games you may want to emulate, it’s hard to find a game that brings the gacha income and competitive gravitas like Supercell’s successful follow up on their Clash of Clans universe. Make no mistake, Dice Brawl‘s deck management and acquisition system is very strictly modelled after Clash Royale and is definitely hoping to capitalize on the familiarity of that system. Where Dice Brawl is hoping to inject some originality is in the gameplay experience. Instead of a real time strategy-like environment with cards that go back into your hand after being used, Dice Brawl has a finite number of card uses and you’ll be duking it out on a game board moving and fighting at the whim of dice rolls.

We’ll have a review out for Dice Brawl once it releases but in the meantime this is a game that definitely warrants keeping an eye on. The pirate theme, art style that is vaguely reminiscent of Dragon’s Lair, and boardgame like gameplay are key points that we think will help this game escape the large shadow cast by the genre’s founder and predecessor. You can currently pre-order Dice Brawl by clicking this link on an iOS 11 device, if that’s a thing you want to do, otherwise look for the full release next Tuesday, February 20th.

Hey it’s International Book Giving Day, which is a great way to unload all those old books you move from apartment to apartment while looking super generous at the same time! Once you’ve finished doing that, you can relax and play some of the new iOS games that have hit our forums this week. The biggest two releases are probably Death Squared and Florence (which we already reviewed). These initial roundup posts are getting a little weird because of the whole preorder thing, so make sure you check out full listing later in the evening where we catch all that stuff as it hits the App Store.

Welcome to another week of new iOS game releases, and honestly, I don’t have anything coherent to say right now. I’ve been staring at my laptop for nearly 12 hours and the games just keep on coming. It’s unbelievable the number of awesome-looking stuff that launched this week, including the sequel to cult-classic PAKO, a new free to play Final Fantasy game, the stealth release of Bring You Home from the geniuses who brought us Tiny Thief and Love You To Bits, and of course the highly-anticipated sequel to THE game of TouchArcade with Disc Drivin’ 2. Seriously, my brain is mush and I probably should have eaten something today, but get your mind off my well being and onto the huge list of new games below and let us know which ones you’re interested in picking up this week.

A Hollow Doorway

iTunes Description

A Hollow Doorway is a meditation on the meaningless. A love letter to nothingness and an introspective look at the heart of purposeless infinity. Desperately swipe and spin your doorway in a futile attempt to match the rotation of rapidly approaching concentric walls as sweat pours from your armpits and your soul pours into your trembling thumb. It’s fun!

Global hit music game AVICII | GRAVITY returns in a massive expansion, packed with brand new and boosted original content:

AVICII | GRAVITY HD

Experience Avicii’s music in a whole new way. Your performance affects how his hit songs are played out. Watch as the environment changes dynamically to reflect your progress. Unlock new ships and use a wide range of powers to further enhance your performance.

Embark on a dangerous journey to help Ayo fetch water for her family. Overcome challenges and enemies as you explore Sub-Saharan Africa – gaining skills, wisdom, and courage along the way. Experience Ayo’s harsh desert environment as she confronts her fears and braves the unforgiving drought in this adventure platformer.

Ayo: A Rain Tale sheds the light on a young girl who regularly carries her tough water-fetching duty with courage. Ayo’s perilous struggle is shared by many girls in Sub-Saharan Africa who live in communities that have no access to clean water. The daily burden of fetching water is carried by women and children – who go on journeys to distant sources and return home shouldering 40-pound containers filled with water for their families.

Join Pixel Pete in this retro side scrolling action game, as he bounces his way to a secret lab in hopes of turning into a 3D bouncy ball. You control Pete’s left and right movement by touching the left or right side of the screen, while he perpetually bounces up and down. Gather enough green blocks by hitting them with Pete so you can exit the level. Avoid hitting death traps and falling off the world. Bouncy Ball NG (“Next Gen”) is a remake of the Color Computer “new-brew” game Bouncy Ball, and carefully designed to be a perfect fit for iPad and iPhone.

From the creators of Love You to Bits, Alike Studio presents BRING YOU HOME

BRING YOU HOME unravels the story of Polo, a humble alien hero who will traverse all kinds of worlds in a frenzied chase to rescue his kidnapped alien pet. BRING YOU HOME is a cute and accessible, purely visual, family-friendly puzzle adventure… with a twist in the gameplay. You don’t control the hero, you control the level ITSELF! How? Change and rearrange the pieces of every level to unveil the right path for Polo!

With this innovative mechanic, even failing can be fun! If poor Polo finds a deadly but hilarious fate, just go back in time and rewind the level. Venture into oodles of worlds stuffed with magical characters, bizarre surprises, and many treacherous dangers – all to catch the captors of your missing pet. Will you get to the bottom of this mystery?

Live the daily life of an awesome planet destroying Space Caterpillar by eating everything that crosses your path! Unleash chaos and destruction as the planets of the galaxy attempt to stop you! Grow and upgrade your caterpillar to take on the most challenging foes in the galaxy! Become a (not so) beautiful butterfly!

Featuring a 100% destructible environment and a custom physics engine, hold on to your socks because they are about to get knocked off!

Manage a city filled with the cutest and most amazing toys! Your favorite claw machine character of 2017, Clawbert, is back in action! You are the manager of ToyTown, a fantastical world where you build amazingly cute toys!!!

Fun retro action clicker game, with a twist! The legends were true… In the year of 1985, the evil Nega-Brain has stolen all the world’s Coins. Hero, you must defeat him and save the Coins! Start your adventure to save the world!

CreaVures is remastered as an iOS exclusive title and now completely self-published! There are no ads, no in-app purchases – no charges whatsoever! Just download and play. The spirit behind creating CreaVures was one of conservation and perseverance. With that in mind, we want to humbly help with hurricane relief by offering a completely optional link to Unicef, with no content being dependent on a donation.

Take control of five cute, mythical creatures of miniature proportions called CreaVures. CreaVures always travel in pairs, and they must use their special abilities to help each other solve interesting platforming puzzles. Set in a world with beautiful phosphorescent colors, these tiny creatures journey to save their homeland and restore light to their dying forest.

Build your Town. Pick your Squad. Roll the Dice, and Score!! From the makers of Pixel People, comes a deep & charming game of strategy, luck and city-building, all rolled into one! As manager of a tiny colony’s soccer club, you must assemble a team of local residents, use whatever skills they may possess, and bring home the glory you deserve.

Gifted with tactics, talent, and technology, you are destined for success – but a host of challenges stand between you and your fate! Will you be able to attract enough players to your town? Will they be able to work together in winning combinations? Will you fulfil the dreams of becoming a Flagship City by winning the coveted Five Leagues? Who will you pick? Who will you drop? How far will you push them using the tools at your disposal? The choice is yours.

Faceoff with friends in a turn-based, disc-swiping race as you compete to be the first to get your disc around the track. Tackle tracks with sweeping curves and elevation changes in physics-based environments. Play at your own pace as you master the action-packed sport of disc drivin’.

Based on the acclaimed original Disc Drivin’, Disc Drivin’ 2 is a combination of skill and tension-producing physics. Now with two swipes per turn, set up your shot and make a second move while still in motion to avoid an unexpected hazard at the last second. Armed with an arsenal of upgradable powers to slip past your enemy, decide the best way to outrace your opponent. Try your hand at the new Speedrun mode where you’ll race against the clock to improve your skills. Earn coins in competition to unlock cards, new powers, discs, and abilities.

A competitive battle to the finish line, Disc Drivin’ 2 is a fresh combination of friendly competition, anticipation, strategy, and hijinks on the track!

Legendary heroes and villains from across the FINAL FANTASY series come together in a compelling story of powerful deities and a world in peril. Fans of the series will see their favorite characters in a brand-new adventure, and newcomers will experience the compelling story, drama, and combat that the FINAL FANTASY series is known for!

Engage in simple yet strategic turn-based combat! The unique Bravery system challenges you to balance offense with defense as you build up your Bravery and wait for the right moment to strike!

Build parties from a cast of dozens of FINAL FANTASY heroes and villains and prepare them for battle with a variety of equipment and abilities. Embark on a journey alongside beloved characters and encounter familiar faces, summons, and more along the way!

Multiplayer quests allow you to join forces with up to two other players to bring down mighty enemies and earn fabulous rewards!

An Alien invasion has been detected and the space station patrolling Earth has been attacked and all the astronauts have been dislodged into space, it is up to you to save all the astronauts and eliminate all threats before Earth is attacked.

Destroy Aliens and asteroids, earn SpaceDust and equip over 40 Mods from the Mod Workshop featuring a system all RPG fans love, the mods have been categorized into common, rare, very rare, epic and legendary. Level up your ship for permanent upgrades and complete 25 levels of pure arcade madness.

The human nature is ridiculous. As ridiculous as your mission: Save the human body – or at least, what remained.

So, you want to know what “Happy Pills” is all about? Basically, you’re this little pill. And you’re jumping through the human body. And you’re trying not to get killed by weird stuff like knives and needles and green slime stuff. It’s just like Flappy Bird. But without birds. And without pipes. And vertical.

Blitz through the oncoming zombies with headshots and rescue the survivors. Gather valuable resources and survive through the post-apocalyptic zombie world of this 2D survival action game.

The Great Smog Apocalypse Produced by chemical reaction of nuclear radiation and mysterious air pollutants, the great smog has swept across the globe. 99.9% of all living creatures that have inhaled the deadly smog have turned into the living dead. All nations as we know it have ceased to exist. However, for the 0.1% that have not turned, the fight for survival has just begun…

Imperial Ambition is another brand new war strategy game developed by Haypi since the release of Haypi Kingdom in 2008. With novel game rules, diverse occupation gameplay and free sandbox strategy, Imperial Ambition，the elaborately designed next-gen magic strategy game，brings SLG into a new 3.0 era. This game pioneers Kingdom War, allowing all players to strive and conquer for hegemony in a world map, which explains why ONLY in Imperial Ambition you can fight fierce battles with other large legions.

Centuries after the battle against the Dark Dragon, evil rumors swept through the races. “When the Dark Dragon awake, the magic world will break.” Conflicts arises which leads the peace and order fallen to pieces. Human, Orcs, Elf, Dwarf, Revenant. The extremists from every race forge their armies and rise in revolt. Sieges! Invasions! Clashes! Wars! Everywhen and everywhere! Your majesty, will you be the savior of our world?

The numerous Slopestyle, Halfpipe, Big-Air, Jibbing (Rails, Boxes) and Backcountry challenge locations are covering a huge variety of freeskiing. The game features a powerful yet simple steering technology with supportive in-game tutorials and simple buttons for beginners and advanced possibilities (2x taps, swipes, etc.) as well as enhancements (Grab-Trick-Packages) for Pro’s.

Summarized, the aim of the game is to beat the world’s best scores and to master given challenges in order to improve your overall skiing skills. Let’s go and give it a try !!

Start playing Kuros Classic today, a New and Unique Puzzle game – use your Logic to find all Kuros from around the world!

Kuros Classic is played on a squared grid where some of the cells have Red Kuros with numbers. Each cell has to be filled by either a Kuros (TAP once) or a rock (TAP twice). The goal is to find out how to fill the whole grid following some simple rules to save the lost Kuros!

Just follow these simple rules and tips to find out which cells should have Kuros and which ones rocks in order to fill the board correctly and complete the level.

Mad Skills BMX 2 has finally arrived! See for yourself why Mad Skills games have been installed more than 40 million times worldwide, by action sports enthusiasts, professional athletes, and casual gamers alike. This is side-scrolling racing action as you’ve never experienced it, racing against people from across the globe on carefully designed tracks that will challenge your skills and — sometimes — your sanity.

Mad Skills BMX 2 will get major developer support, ensuring tons of meaningful updates in the weeks, months, and years to come. We already have additional game modes in the works!

Mini Golf like you never played before! Thousands of crazy courses are waiting for you. And once you’re ready for something else, start creating your own and share them with the world! Don’t forget to upgrade your character with tons of wacky accessories. And most importantly, have fun!

– PLAY thousands of player created courses – COMPLETE challenging goals on each course – CREATE and SHARE your own courses – CUSTOMIZE your character with awesome acessories – COMPETE with your friends in daily tournaments

You play as a rogue government experiment named Noven, who has just been infused with the power of a dying star. Becoming one with the star gave Noven incredible powers, while also giving him speed, agility, and the ability to emit radiation from his body! Considered highly dangerous by his government, Noven has escaped into the city where he hopes to find refuge, but his government has already sent assassins to neutralize him.

In a time when demons and humans coexisted… Evil spirits from the underworld have begun a quest for power, strength, and dominance. The balance between the two worlds is now in jeopardy.

Fortunately, there’s a group of gifted humans who can read the stars and draw amulets. They have the power to connect the two worlds, and even tame the spirits. They are willing to lay everything on the line to maintain peace and order between the two worlds. They are known as Onmyoji.

The gate to this magical world of spirits and beauty will now open for you…

PAKO 2 is an arcade driving game where you work as a getaway driver. Pick up your crew from heist spot, escort them to safety in dramatic chase against the cops, repeat and compete in the leaderboards! Every run gains you money which can be used to buy new rides and locations. Get in, get out, get paid!

Are you faster than a speeding bullet? Sports are better when you have gun legs. Run faster! Jump higher! Shoot for the gold!

Attaching guns to your legs has revolutionized track and field competition forever! The recoil from your gun legs will send you flying over the running track. Pulverize those world records! Experiment with using the bazooka legs and fly even higher!

In RUN GUN SPORTS you travel the world competing in track and field championships. Barcelona, Atlanta, Osaka, Athens. Can you beat them all?

Introducing Tri Breaker a brick breaker game with a new twist. Your finger is the paddle and the bricks never stop coming. Simple and minimal gameplay that everyone can enjoy, but hard to master for those who love a challenge.

This world is kept at balance thanks to the mysterious shadow blocks, but a dark and powerful wizard cast a spell and scattered many of the various shadowbox formations that kept the shadow at bay.

You have been chosen as the owner of the amulet to restore the balance between light and darkness. As the amulet owner only you can control the shadowbox blocks and return them to their original state to bring balance back to our world.

Umbra is a simple and addictive 3D AR puzzle game. The goal is to match the shadow cast by the block to make a specific pattern. Players must use both their logic and creativity to analyze the 3D shape and match it with the pattern provided. A challenging brain game for everyone.

Finally, your dream of balancing on a unicycle and hurling heavy objects HAS COME TRUE.

– More than SEVEN individual Olympic-style events! (there are eight.) – Compete in Career Mode for the global high score. – Near-professional sports commentators. – Improve your skills with “enhancements.” – Become a unicycling, object-tossing, world champion.

Kakao might not be a game company you are familiar with, but their success overseas has opened doors for them to bring their widely popular gachapon Lord of Dice [Free] to western shores. If you are not instantly familiar with that term gachapon, its basically a reference to free to play games that allow you to collect, level up and evolve your team of fighters to take on ever increasingly strong enemies. These games offer a slow trickle of hero acquisition which can be expedited via the purchase of summoning gems. If you aren’t a fan of this type of free to play model, I can save you some time and say that the formula is followed closely enough that you probably won’t enjoy this game. For those of you who do, however, there is a lot under the hood that this game offers.

In Lord of Dice you operate a team of characters, to which the game dubs ‘Dicers.’ Your character and the other dicers are trapped in the Tower of Inifinty and have lost their memories. In order to escape the tower and regain your memories you need to level up, get strong, and ascend the tower. The story is admittedly rather thin, but the game does not really hinge on the story line progresion. The real strong points of Lord of Dice are the combat and the visual asthetic. LoD has a strong chibi-anime visual style that feeds its combat and dicer animations. Moving around in Lord of Dice feels a lot like Mario Party, where you bounce from spot to spot getting into trouble each turn. The nice thing about LoD is that you can plan out where you end up moving to and end up dishing out most of the trouble to your enemy with a little bit of planning.

The biggest attraction for me in Lord of Dice is the gameplay. What looks like a simple RPG card playing interface belies some gravitas that you would not expect from your typical FTP game. On the surface, you play one of your dicers each turn and you have an attack and a movement that are executed associated with that card. Once you finish your attack and move, opponents can attack you if you are in their range. The next turn you take may be impacted by a special effect your previous card had or by buffs or debuffs that you picked up by landing on them. So far this game doesn’t even have any dice mechanics. The first wrinkle comes in the form of dice battles. Most of the time these battles are triggered by running directly into an enemy before it gets killed by one of your attacks. You select 3 of your dicers to a roll-off with the opponent. There are a slew of special abilities and modifiers but the basic idea is that the high-roller wins and deals damage to the loser.

What you will start to notice is that each dicer has their own types of dice they roll in a fight, sometimes more than one. They also have movement values that are variable, skills that impact the next dicer’s attack if it is the correct type. They have defensive skills, charge skills and these ALL can combine in being much MUCH stronger than a single dicer doing a single attack. It is this complexity that makes me happy I have certain dicers and will actively go back hoping to summon more. These types of synergies mean that there is probably no single “right” way to build a team, which is the pit many gacha games fall into. While there are only about 200 dicers in the game and a solid team is pretty easy to establish, you can keep fishing for more and more perfect versions of dicers to slowly get stronger and build towards specific goals. For example, I love dicers that have 5 move and 1 move values. Melee dicers are especially strong at 5 move and whirlwind dicers are great at 1 move. You might want more 2-4 movement options but I love having the extreme distance spreads so I can chose to either stall or race through areas. This is especially helpful in the raid mode.

Gem acquisition in games like this is sometimes dicey… but Lord of Dice is really generous with the amount of summons you will get. Within about 20 minutes of play you get enough gems to do the big premium summon pack. The first month’s login reward is a 5 star summon and there are enough acheivements to unlock to get you multiple pulls on that big summon pack in your first few days. This is a game I can see investing in heavily, but the primary resource for me is going to be time, not money.

Like most gacha games, you have a main story line game mode as well as pvp, raid, guild, and resource gathering side areas that have separate rewards that mostly reset on a daily or weekly basis. I was not able to find much in the reesource gathering section that felt unique or interesting but the pvp and raid boss fights are both very cool and a lot of fun. Trying out new team strategies for both of these modes proves that the depth of combat in this game has a huge impact on how successful you can be given various combat objectives. The pvp mode usually involves a small loop of squares with buffs and items the replenish after a certain number or rounds that you chase your opponent around. The boss mode can be played either solo or cooperatively with others. Bosses have minions that attack normally as well as large, telegraphed area of effect attacks that can usually be avoided with clever use of your dicers. You don’t really come across a gacha game with as much depth and varied gameplay as Lord of Dice. I guess thats why it has been so successful in other regions prior to the NA release. While the story line and artwork carry some trope-y under tones, There is still a whole lot of game to enjoy here.